🇩🇪 The most expensive electricity in the G20. Power plants were destroyed for that

Germany has received another first place, with which it is only difficult not to brag.

According to a recent analysis by Verivox, ⁠electricity in Germany is the most expensive among all G20 countries.

The German consumer pays an average of 35.6 cents per kWh.

For comparison:

Italy — 34.5 cents;
Great Britain — 32.4;
France — 23.3;
USA — 18.3;
the G20 average — only 16.3 cents.

That means German electricity costs more than twice as much as the G20 average.

At the same time, the actual generation accounts for only about one third of the final price. More than 60% goes to taxes, levies, charges, and grid fees.

And all of this after years of Germany’s energy transition: The country has shut down the last nuclear power plants, is phasing out coal-fired power generation, and at the same time has to invest enormous sums in grids, reserve capacities, and a new energy system.

Some old plants are not just being decommissioned anymore. They are being physically demolished: So RWE ⁠on August 29 demolished the 200-meter-high chimney of the Frimmersdorf coal power plant.

The most expensive electricity among the world’s largest economies — we destroyed the power plants with our own hands for that.


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